Shintaro Mochizuki and Kyle Seelig will face off in the qualifications of the Citi Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 10:00 am on GRANDSTAND. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Shintaro Mochizuki who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Shintaro Mochizuki is the pick to win this match.
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 1.174
Kyle Seelig -> 4.5
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Prediction and head to head Shintaro Mochizuki vs. Kyle Seelig
There is no head to head record between Shintaro Mochizuki and Kyle Seelig since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Shintaro Mochizuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-27 | 12-17 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-33 | 22-16 | 13-8 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-34 | 18-17 | 13-12 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-30 | 11-10 | 18-11 | 5-7 | 1-1 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 14-12 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 196, the Japanese reached the qualifications after beating Mateus Alves 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Mochizuki had a good straight sets win against Alves (6-3 6-4). During the match, Mochizuki scored 68 points vs Alves’s 53. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Mochizuki scored 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Shintaro Mochizuki was exceptionally effective on serve to win 88% (22/25) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Alves 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Mochizuki has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 56% of his matches (137-109). 14-8 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Mochizuki has an overall69-55 record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Barletta Challenger where he beat Santiago Rodriguez Taverna in the final 6-1 6-4.
Shintaro has an aggregate 31-22 win-loss record in 2023, 14-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Washington
Kyle Seelig
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 16-11 | 8-6 | 3-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-25 | 32-20 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 50-17 | 47-15 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 10-6 | 1-1 | 6-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 446, Kyle reached the qualifications after defeating Benjamin Kittay 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Kyle had a good straight sets win against Kittay (6-4 7-5). During the match Seelig scored 77 points vs Kittay’s 60. Seelig was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Seelig fired 3 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Kyle Seelig conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Seelig put 71% of his first serves in, winning 70% (33/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 84% (16/19) on the 2nd serve. Kyle broke Kittay twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Seelig’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Santo Domingo.
The American has a composed 15-8 win-loss record in 2023, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Washington
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mochizuki | Seelig |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 22 |
| Pts | 68-53 | 77-60 |
| Total Points | 121 | 137 |
| Winners | 22 | 33 |
| %Winners | 32% | 43% |
Both Mochizuki and Seelig played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mochizuki and Seelig have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mochizuki played 3 games less than Seelig. The Japanese scored 22 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Kyle struck 33 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mochizuki | Seelig |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 3 |
| 1st in | 25/44 | 47/66 |
| %1st in | 57% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 22/25 | 33/47 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 16/19 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 84% |
Mochizuki fired 6 aces . Seelig managed to score 3 aces . Mochizuki won 88% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Seelig won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 84% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mochizuki | Seelig |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 2/6 |
| % Converted | 44% | 33% |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Shintaro lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Kyle was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Mochizuki | |||
| Q1 Alves |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 68-53 | 68-53 | |
| Total points | 121 | 121 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 25/44 | 25/44 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 22/25 | 22/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Seelig | |||
| Q1 Kittay |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 77-60 | 77-60 | |
| Total points | 137 | 137 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 47/66 | 47/66 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 33/47 | 33/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/19 | 16/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 84% | 84% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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